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From: JPL on 12 Nov 2009 18:21
I had already tried this; it was not the problem.

"John John - MVP" wrote:

> Click on the parent key and grant yourself the necessary permissions to
> access and delete the keys. (the {EAC0842F-9764-03DD-A0B6-5FFFB48AD6EB}
> key is most likely inheriting permissions from its parent).
>
> John
>
> JPL wrote:
> > I have a rogue registry key on my Windows XP SP3 PC:
> >
> > HKLM\SOFTWARE\Xanthic
> >
> > I have no idea where it came from; I have never heard of Xanthic.
> >
> > An attempt to delete it produces the error message:
> >
> > Cannnot delete Xanthic: Error while deleting key.
> >
> > Xanthic has just one sub-key. On right-clicking it the following error is
> > reported:
> >
> > Cannot open {EAC0842F-9764-03DD-A0B6-5FFFB48AD6EB}: Error while opening key
> >
> > How may I remove this registry entry?
> .
>
From: JPL on 12 Nov 2009 18:28
Tom,

Thanks.

I had of course Googled for it, but without the malware tag, and found
nothing helpful.

From your search I found a link to an article suggesting the use of
Sysinternals RegDelNull.exe, and using this (RegDellNull
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Xanthic) it took only a few seconds to remove the rogue key.

I had not realised that RegEdit is unable to process keys containing nulls.

JPL

"Tom Willett" wrote:

> Did you Google for it?
> http://www.google.com/#hl=en&safe=off&q=xanthic+malware&aq=0&aqi=g1&oq=Xanthic+mal&fp=1c443ffcb5a5cce1
>
> "JPL" <JPL(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:9B1E9866-4954-4DF6-92DD-8B8CBA012F1F(a)microsoft.com...
> :I have a rogue registry key on my Windows XP SP3 PC:
> :
> : HKLM\SOFTWARE\Xanthic
> :
> : I have no idea where it came from; I have never heard of Xanthic.
> :
> : An attempt to delete it produces the error message:
> :
> : Cannnot delete Xanthic: Error while deleting key.
> :
> : Xanthic has just one sub-key. On right-clicking it the following error is
> : reported:
> :
> : Cannot open {EAC0842F-9764-03DD-A0B6-5FFFB48AD6EB}: Error while opening
> key
> :
> : How may I remove this registry entry?
>
>
> .
>
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